The Colony of Georgia was founded in 1732 by General James Oglethorpe as a haven where the poorer citizens of Britain could find refuge and start their lives over. Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw Bluff, home to the Yamacraw Indians, and their chief, Tomochichi, one of the great revolutionary figures of the native Americans. Tomochichi himself had been exiled from his own Creek tribe, as a result of controversy on how to relate to those arriving from the New World, so he started his own tribe, the Yamacraws. In 1733, the ship William and Sarah arrived in the new colony, carrying Benjamin and Perla Sheftall, founding members of Congregation Mickve Israel. The Sheftalls’ son, Mordecai, later became the highest ranking Jewish officer in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The Rebel of Savannah is the fictional retelling, based on historical facts, of the growth of the colonial American south from 1732 to 1791, the intricate relations between Christians, Jews, and Native Americans, the struggle for American independence, and the unifying power of freedom.

The Rebel of Savannah

Literature & Fiction

Tawil, Hayim

Alouf-Mizrahi, Mazal

Weissman, Chananya

Genre Fiction

Kodesh Press

Thanks to this generous donor for making the publication of this book possible: Jack B. Dweck.
The history and dramatic rescue of the oldest Hebrew Bible in book form
In Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of the most authoritative and accurate traditional Masoretic texts of the Bible. 
Completed circa 939 in Tiberias, the Crown was created by exacting Tiberian scribes who copied the entire Bible into book form, adding annotations, vowel and cantillation marks, and precise commentary. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Crown passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever. 
That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location—presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. 
This wonderfully rich book contains more than 50 rare photographs and maps, some in full color, including those of the Aleppo Codex, the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, and of the people who played a part in its rescue.

Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex

History

Schneider, Bernard

World

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

Several thousand Jews who remained behind after evacuation of the Jewish populace from Yemen to Israel in 1949 were prevented by unjust laws from communicating with family members in Israel. This first-person account chronicles the author's 15-year struggle to secure permission for Yemen's remaining Jews to emigrate to Israel, and is the first written documentation of a little-known rescue operation that took place in the shadow of the Persian Gulf War. Includes b&w photos and documents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Operation Esther: Opening the Door for the Last Jews of Yemen

Goloubinoff, Pierre

Miodownik, Steven

Belkis Pr

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